I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 54

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The Sword Master effect is amazing.

I inwardly suppressed my laughter at the sight of the frozen Sembeus and the Sea God’s Holy Knight.

Those two see me as some great Holy Maiden, but actually what I did was nothing special.

I just lightly added my divine power to the aura Seth was emanating. They’d never dream that I’m a half-baked Holy Maiden with only 10% divine power.

“We don’t need to be friendly, but to think you’d send an assassin after me, a Holy Maiden first. I’m quite shocked.”

“…There seems to be a misunderstanding.”

“A misunderstanding?”

I burst into laughter like someone who had heard something truly amusing.

“I personally caught someone who invaded my bedroom with a sword, and you call it a misunderstanding.”

“It’s true that I came to retrieve the person currently being held by the Sun God’s Main Temple. But we have no idea why that person came here either! Of course we never gave any assassination orders!”

Ah, so you’re going to play completely dumb.

Well, since the kidnapping incident itself can’t be exposed, pretending not to know is the answer. According to Jeremy, they really didn’t order an assassination anyway.

“We give that person commands through divine power, but it seems there was some confusion and he misunderstood. It was an unexpected accident for us too…”

“An accident?”

At that moment, Seth’s aura behind me became twice as sharp.

“I suppose the Holy Maiden of the Temple of the Sea God is the type who would say it’s fine since it was just an accident, even if a vicious criminal with a sword accidentally burst into her bedroom.”

Wow, my goodness…

For none other than that rigid Seth to be so sarcastic. He must be very angry about this incident.

“…I misspoke. I apologize.”

Sembeus apologized quite readily, surprisingly.

Well, even he would think the Sea God’s Holy Maiden is absolutely not that type of person, right?

Rather, she’s the type who would extract information through all kinds of torture then tear someone apart limb by limb while they’re still alive.

“But we truly never gave such an order. Assassinating the Holy Maiden – that’s absurd!”

Of course, the kidnapping target that the Temple of the Sea God had planned wasn’t me either.

According to Jeremy, the target was just some random priest.

But Jeremy aimed for me.

‘I don’t know why. But for some reason I felt a strong compulsion that I had to approach the Holy Maiden. Even when being controlled, I should have had the instinct not to touch the Holy Maiden.’

I don’t know why I became the target, Jeremy doesn’t know, and even those who gave the orders don’t know, so let’s think about it later.

The important point now is that I’m the one who was wronged, and I’m fully intent on exploiting that.

“Just an unfortunate accident… Then who should I complain to about the injuries I sustained from this accident?”

At my words, Sembeus’s complexion hardened.

“…Injuries?”

“That assassin’s skills were no joke. Do you think I, who has never fought before, could have subdued him without any wounds?”

Jeremy, who was imbued with divine power?

It’s only because of my special constitution, but normally it would be impossible.

Naturally, that man would think the same.

“There was truly blood everywhere. I swear by the Sun God, it was the first time in this life I’ve bled so much.”

It’s not a lie, right? It really was the first time in this life anyway.

Actually I coughed up blood trying to break the curse, but there was indeed bloodshed.

Since they’re cleverly avoiding the truth too, I did the same for them.

“If the High Priest hadn’t treated me in time, or if the Sun God’s abilities weren’t specialized in healing, I wouldn’t be facing you like this right now.”

“Uh, that…”

“So regardless of the Sea God’s side’s claims, I need to receive proper compensation for this incident.”

Sembeus squeezed his eyes shut. I could feel anger from his tightly clenched fists.

“Fine. I’ll compensate you. Would money suffice for compensation?”

Oh my. What an unpleasant tone.

That one sentence was overflowing with the dismissive attitude of ‘how much could you possibly ask for?’

“However! We’ll be taking the one who made the mistake. It would be troublesome to expose our shame, so please keep quiet about this.”

Calling Jeremy, who possesses divine power, a shame. He’s full of determination to get him back no matter what.

I should fulfill that determination, shouldn’t I?

“Captain.”

Seth nodded at my call and approached the door, opening the closed door.

“That…!”

Sembeus jumped up in shock at the sight of the person revealed through the open door.

Jeremy, wearing proper black clothes instead of the torn outfit I had shredded, and High Priest Airic holding him were standing side by side at the door.

“I never would have thought you’d call someone whose entire body is filled with the Sea God’s divine power a ‘shame.’ Well, he is quite suitable for sending as a Holy Maiden assassin though.”

It’s not shame, but because of that divine power you absolutely have to take him back, right?

Whether he understood my meaning, Sembeus’s cheek muscles trembled.

He seemed to clearly realize that they weren’t in a position to make demands.

“I’ll return him. You can’t kill him, wound his body, or even torture him for information.”

“…”

“I also won’t make this public.”

Even at these sweet words, Sembeus wasn’t pleased.

Doing good things for them meant I intended to extract a hefty price in return.

I smiled brightly and spread both hands.

“Ransom: 100,000 gold.”

“One hundred…!”

Sembeus was shocked.

100,000 gold – 10 billion won in Korean currency.

He probably never expected me to ask for this much? Even if you take someone for a fool, there should be limits.

“Why? I’m saying I’ll quietly hand over someone who possesses the Sea God’s divine power, and you begrudge that money?”

I asked coldly, dropping the honorifics.

Sembeus bit his lips tightly and glanced at Jeremy standing at the doorway. He looked like he was about to give an order to escape from here immediately.

“The person holding that assassin is our High Priest, so go ahead and try if you want.”

“…”

Sembeus’s face turned pale. Like a cornered rat.

“Will you quietly pay the ransom, or do you want to get caught here too?”

I kindly gave him two whole options.

“…100,000 gold is too much. Even the Temple of the Sea God cannot arrange such a large sum immediately.”

A lie. I know very well how the Temple of the Sea God is overflowing with money.

Even if they had to strain themselves to scrape it together, they could definitely manage it, but he’s saying this because he fears the consequences when he returns to the Temple of the Sea God.

“So you can’t pay?”

“T-Twenty thousand gold we can provide! But more than that is really difficult!”

At his desperate cry, I burst into scornful laughter.

“Hahaha! Twenty thousand gold! That person really must be the Temple of the Sea God’s shame! To think his ransom is worth only that much.”

Sembeus’s face flushed red and blue.

If he cried out that it wasn’t true, he’d have to pay more money, so he had no choice but to endure it.

Who can he blame? He should blame his own mouth for calling Jeremy a shame first.

“Well, fine. I want to just end this troublesome matter here, so I’ll accept 20,000 gold.”

Reducing it from 10 billion to 2 billion.

Ah, how merciful this is.

“…Really?”

“Don’t like it? Then pay the 100,000 gold.”

“No! I can only be grateful for the Holy Maiden’s deep mercy.”

Sembeus bowed his head to me while biting his lips until they bled.

Actually, I threw out 100,000 gold knowing it wouldn’t work, and the amount I really had in mind was 10,000 gold.

But he’s offering to pay twice that on his own – how grateful.

“Now that we’ve finished talking about ransom, shall we discuss compensation for damages?”

Since I’m grateful, let me squeeze out a bit more.

“…What?”

When I spoke with a smiling face, Sembeus stiffened rigidly.

What are you surprised about?

“What we’ve negotiated so far is the assassin’s ransom, not compensation for damages. Those are strictly different things.”

“Th, that’s… That is…”

“Why, don’t you want to pay?”

Then there’s no choice.

“I’ll have to spread rumors that I, the Holy Maiden, was severely injured by an attack from the Sea God’s side. Ah! Don’t worry. Since the ransom for the assassin was paid, I won’t reveal his appearance.”

How’s that, merciful right?

I smiled brightly while looking at Sembeus’s dumbfounded face.

That’s what you get, you bastards, who told you to attempt a kidnapping? You can blame yourselves.

“So, what will you do?”

There’s only one choice to make anyway.

Sembeus’s face quietly despairing at that was quite a sight to behold.

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